The storm which we predicted has broken forth over the announced changes in the admission requirements. One newspaper warns the exultant anti-classicists that Harvard, instead of setting the lead, may be held up as an example of what a college should not be. Another newspaper, with sinister mysteriousness, gives out the hint that Harvard has thrown overboard, along with prescribed Greek, more than she suspects. Still another talks gloomily about the "combined forces of moneyed considerations and a false liberalism" "crumbling the walls of scholastic learning," and indicates quite (?) that Harvard "has sold its (?) right for a mess of pottage." They are mature announcement of the change has thus done considerable mischief Since the faculty are but human, it can hardly be expected of them, in the face of this violent and irrational clamor to come to their final decision in the matter in a perfectly calm and unbiased spirit. No man can be subjected to such savage criticism, and not become either obstinate or fainthearted under it. This question of admission requirements, however, is one which should be decided neither by partisan feeling nor by timidity.
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